How Long to Read A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume II

How Long Does it Take to Read A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume II?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 53 minutes to read A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume II by Serge D. Elie

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Description

This two-volume book offers a panoramic explanatory narrative of Soqotra Island’s rediscovery based on the global significance of its endemic biodiversity. The first volume, A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra: A Mesography of an Indigenous Polity in Yemen initiated the analytical inventory of the four key vectors of Soqotra’s transition process through a discussion of the first two: economic disarticulation and political incorporation. This volume, A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra: Cultural & Environmental Annexation of an Indigenous Community completes the analytical inventory by exploring the other two pivotal vectors of transition: cultural modernization and environmental annexation. These two vectors encompass the critical sociocultural spheres and environmental domains in which Soqotra’s transformation process is unfolding. The origin of these vectors is situated within Soqotra’s long history of exogenous mediations by external actors and their symbolic appropriation of the island into an imaginative geography. The legacy is a “symbolic curse," which has made Soqotra into an ideal playground for fantasist cultural or environmental experiments. Accordingly, this volume undertakes, first, a systematic inventory of the communal effects engendered within the domains of cultural modernization: dissonant linguistic attitudes, alienating consumption practices, divergent religious affiliations, and differentiating economic aspirations. Second, it anatomizes the process of environmental annexation through the reconstruction of the formulation and implementation process of a biodiversity conservation and sustainable development experiment in which the island and its residents are appropriated into an anachronistic paradigm – a pastoral ecotopia – as a blueprint of their future.

How long is A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume II?

A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume II by Serge D. Elie is 399 pages long, and a total of 103,341 words.

This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 126% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume II Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 24 minutes to read A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume II aloud.

What Reading Level is A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume II?

A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume II is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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